Unit 1 lesson plans
Wed 8/17 class intro 45 min
5 Credit format, grading rules, student expectations, grading categories, % to pass
Th/Fri 18, 19 Block
1.1 What is science?
1f
Lab: Online signup for textbook/ students investigate features of online text.
Take an interactive quiz cba-1010 (prequiz)
Mon/Tu 22, 23
1.2 How scientists work Redi, Spallanzani, Pasteur experiments
7c,9c,1f
Active art cbp-1012 Redi’s experiment activity
Lab: Worm lab 1a, 1b, 1c
Wed 24 45min Webquest: Scientific method at work: millerandlevine.com
+ Written student summary
Th/Fri 25, 26 Block
1.3a Features of living things
Lab: Pill Bug lab
WKU Bio 114 Animal Behavior lab (online)
Project: Design an experiment: Pill Bugs due 9/15 or 9/16
M/Tu 29, 30 Block
1.3b Big ideas in Biology
Native plants observation: Nathanson Creek park + written summary
W 8/31 45 min
Issues in biology: when a scientist has a conflict of interest pg 23 Online research PHSchool.com
Th/Fri Sept 1,2 block
Ch 1 quiz (include prequiz questions and vocabulary words)
Microscope lab
Mon Sept 5 Labor day
Tu/Wed 9/6, 7 Block
2.1 Nature of matter: atoms and molecules/2.2 properties of water
Lab: build molecular models of water, CO2, carbon compounds
SciLinks: properties of water
Th/Fri 9/ 8, 9 Block
Nature walk/ Shocken Hill ( day long field trip)
OR 2.3 Carbon compounds
Lab: build simple Carbon compounds
M/Tu9/ 12, 13 Block
2.4 Chemical reactions and enzymes
Chemistry std 1e,2a,2b,2h
T demonstration: Liver lab
Active art: enzyme action activity cbp-1024
Web animation: enzymes and heat Virtual labs phsuccessnet.com
W 9/14 45 min
Biodetectives: Forensics
Career link: Forensic science cbb-1021
Interactive self test Ch 2 cba-1020
Th/Fri 9/15,16 Unit 1 Test chapters 1 and 2
Pill Bug Project due